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Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:01 pm
by patchworkgardens
I am looking for solid cultivator shanks for the cub. Something like illustration 8A here
http://www.cleancomputes.com/Cub/Cub%20 ... e%2013.jpgI'd like to get some beet knives but all sources I've seen mount like these
http://www.buctraco.com/3%20Online%20Ca ... ments2.htmStandard spring shanks are at shovel angle.
Also, does anybody sell half sweeps? I'm about to just get some full sweeps from TSC and chop off half.
-Josh
www.patchworkgardens.net
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:06 pm
by Boss Hog
The spring trip shanks are adjustable
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:18 pm
by patchworkgardens
Guess I should have checked to see how far they adjusted first. They go all the way to vertical?
Im also thinking about maybe just mounting to "3" in
http://www.cleancomputes.com/Cub/Cub%20 ... age-29.jpgor "4" in
http://www.cleancomputes.com/Cub/Cub%20 ... age-30.jpgI guess these are actually standards. Just figured out the real difference between shanks and standards. Is there a good source for standards around?
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:34 pm
by AL Farmall Boy
what is the difference actually. my understanding is that the standard is the part that bolts to the cuff/clamp (the actual shaft), and the shank is the complete "foot" assembly.
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:40 pm
by Boss Hog
Used ones are around, good ones will cost you $40 and up here. not so good $15 or so. some call them shanks, some call them standards and some call them feet.
Boss
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:52 pm
by AL Farmall Boy
I think we've called them all.
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:54 pm
by twotone
I bought half sweeps at a Big R (farm store) in Illinois. They are available.
Tom
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:22 pm
by tst
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:33 pm
by DavidG
The standard "3" or "4" in the manuals could easily be made by you or a neighbor by welding a piece of 1-1/4 round to a flat bar with holes in it. I'd think that buying the IH Cub part, or buying a whole spring-trip standard, would be too expensive just for that piece. Though, agrisupply does sell these,
http://www.agrisupply.com/Shank-For-Plo ... sid=&eid=/I remember seeing on some supplier's website that they did sell half sweeps, but they just made them themselves by cutting of one wing of a full sweep.
It seems like the flexible c-shaped flat spring-steel things are often called shanks, and the solid ones standards (like spring-trip standards) but I don't think there's an official name really. For the business ends, it's my understanding that sweeps are the triangle-pointed ones (or whatever other shape) and shovels are the narrow pointed ones. Seems a bit backwards to me, but hey.
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 6:45 pm
by PVF1799
I all - I found this older thread - read down through it I still have a question or two as usual.
I have purchased two IH Spring Release Cultivators for the Cub. I've looked at this thread, agrisupply and google shop and I'll be - I don't know which ones to buy. Given how the Cultivators are made I really don't see how two bolts hold a 12" Sweep in place.
Ken
Re: Source for solid cultivator shanks
Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 5:44 am
by dmacarthur
Check on ebay for Cub Cultivator. I have bought several half-sweeps on shanks in really good condition this spring, enough to cultivate 3 rows at a time if I dare!